Cake of soap having desired insignia



4 L. A. BLOCK ,2

CAKE OF SOAP HAVING A DESIRED INSIGNIA Filed May 23, 1941 LEsuEABmcK INVEN TOR .4 TTORNE Y mica Aug. 11, 1942 UNITED STATES PATENT- OFFICE "can: or soar HAVING DESIRED INSIGNIA 4 1 Leslie A. Block, Rochester, N. Y.

I Application May 23, 1941, Serial No. 394,790

r Claims.

The present invention is a continuation-inpart. of my co-pen'ding application Serial No.

280,336 filed June 21, 1939 and relates particularlyto a cake of soap having a desired insignia.

As is known soap materials have a definite grain which extends through the soap depending on the cake forming process. Such grain is formed both in milled and/or frame-soap cakes and particularly in milled soaps as is evidenced by cracking or checking along surfaces of the soap cake toward which the grain extends. For instance, a milled soap, which is discharged from the plodder in an endwise direction, will have the grain of the soap extending lengthwise of the scrap cake.and extending toward the end of the ca e.

The primary object of the present invention is the provision of a cake of soap having a distinctive insignia therein and which insignia is formed of a soap material having its grain extending Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a plodder for forming soap cakes.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a soap cake made according to the inventionand'which has been subjected to alternate wetting and drying.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view in section, on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2, of the preferred form of a soap substantially parallel to a surface of relatively v large area of the soap cake.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a soap cake having surfaces of different areas and composed of a soap material having the grain thereof substantially normal to a surface of. relatively small area and having an insert therein composed of a soap material with the grain thereof substantially parallel to a surface of relatively large area of the soap cake.

A further object is the provision of a soap cake comprising-an elongated soap body composed of a soap material having its grain extending longicake with a distinctive insignia.

Figs. 4 and 5 are perspective views also in section of modified forms of a soap cake with distinctive insignia according to the invention.

The present invention relates broadly to the provision of distinctive insignia, preferably of different color, within a soap cake in such relationship that alternate and/or excessive wetting and drying of the soap cake does not effect the insignia and/or its aflixa tion within the cake.

Such objective is accomplished by providing the distinctive insert within the soap cake so that the grain of the insert is substantially parallel to the display surface or to a surface of relatively large area of the soap cake. Preferably also the grain of the soap cake itself is substantially parallel to the display surface or surface of the soap cake of relatively large area. The illustrated embodiments of my invention show various ways of so providing the distinctive intudinally of said bodyand substantially parallel to a display surface thereof and an insert within said-body and composed of a soap material having its grain substantially parallel to said display surface.

Other objects of the invention will be suggested to those skilled in the art by the disclosure which follows. The aforementioned and other objects of the invention are embodied in a soap cake having surfaces of different areas including a display surface and composed of a soap material havingthe grain thereof substantially normal-to a surface of relatively small area and substantially parallel to said display surface, and a distin'ctively colored insert within said body, and composed of a soap material having its grain substantially parallel to said display surface and either parallel or perpendicular to the grain in said soap cake.

Reference, is hereby made to the accompanyserts-with their grain substantially parallel to the display surface of the soap cake.

While the grain of a.soap cake or distinctive insert therefor is hardly noticeable in a properly formed cake or insert of soap material, it is nevertheless a well "recognized fact that a definite.

grain does exist in a soap body or insert formed either of a milled or frame soap. Such grain is illustrated in the drawing by dashes for transverse sections and byshading lines for elevations or in sections parallel to the grain.

For instance, a milled soap may be from a plodder ID of standard design shown in Fig. '1 and including a hopper H and an extrusion nozzle I2. Preferably, the soap material for the cake body is extruded endwise as a soap strip I! which is then cut into elongated scan cakes M. A soap cake so formed and subjected to successive wetting and drying will crack or.

have crevices formed along linesparallel to the grain of the soap in the manner shown in Fig. 2. W The soap cake may have any of various standard shapes such as elongated rectangular or octagonal cakes, an oval cake, or a circular cake. But regardless of the shape of the cake or the method of forming the same from either milled or frame soap, a definite grain will exist in the ing drawing wherein similar reference characters pake and such grain will preferably be parallel designate similar'elements and wherein:

to the display surface of the rectangular or extruded" event the grain in the cake extends transversely thereof, as shown in Fig. 5, and such grain is perpendicular to the side surfaces I6 but is still parallel to' the display surface I5. Subsequent forming of the cake into oval or circular shapes in either case does not greatly alter the direction of the grain which may still be regarded as substantially parallel to the display surface of the cake.

As illustrated in Fig. 2, the maximum checking or cracking of the soap cake occurs alon the surface or surfaces which are perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the grain of the soap. Such cracks are most prominent in those surfaces which are normal to the grain *whether the cake is composed of milled or frame soap. The logical and natural ways of forming the distinctive inserts is with the grain therein normal or perpendicular to the display surface or surfaces of the insert. However, in such event the cracks or crevices then occur along the visible surface or surfaces of the insert to spoil the appearance thereof and may even result in sep aratlon of the insert from the soap body.

According to the invention, suchdistinctive inserts are for-med so that the grain in the soap material of which they are formed is parallel or substantially parallel to the display surface of the insert and/or to the display surface of the soap cake itself. Asshown in Figs. 35, the insert I8 has a display surface l9 and lateral surfaces 20. The grain of the soap material formin such insert I8 isparallel to said display surface l9 and is also parallel to the display surface I5 of the soap cake I4. Such arrangement of the soap grain in the inserts to be parallel to the display surface thereof and tothe display surface of the soap cake may be accomplished in several different ways.

The grain of the soap cake Il may extend longitudinally of the cake as shown in Figs. 3 and 4,

and the grain of the insert -I8 may be parallel to the grain in the soap cake II, as shown in Fig. 3, or the grain of the insert I8 may extend transversely or perpendicularly of the grain of the soap cake I4, as shown in Fig. 4. Alternatively, the grain of the soap cake Il may extend transversely of the cake l4 and be normal to the side surfaces It thereof and the grain of the insert I8 may extend longitudinally of the soap cake II as shown in Fig. 5.

In any case, the grain ofthe insert I8 is always parallel to the display surface I9 thereof and to the display surface I! of the soap cake ll. While such grain of the insert may not be precisely parallel to its display surface or to the display surface of oval, circular, or rounded soap cakes, the term :substantially parallel as used herein includes and properlydescribes. such instances because the grain of such inserts and soap cakes soap material'which has a definite grain it is to be understood that the invention may be utilized also to advantage in fabricating a soap cake with distinctive insignia out of frame soap material. Also the distinctive inserts may be composed of a soap material differing in color and/or shade from the soap material of the cake body and may or may not be made from a soap material which is drier or of less moisture content than the soap material from which the cake body is made.

Since many modifications of the invention are possible, the present invention is to be construed in an illustrative sense and the scope of the invention is defined by the claims which follow.

Having now particularly described my invention what I desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States and what I claim is:

1. As an article of manufacture, a soap cake comprising a body having a display surface, and an insert within said body and composed of a soap material having its grain substantially parallel to said display surface.

2. As an article of manufacture, a soap cake comprising a body having surfaces of different areas and composed of a soap material having the grain thereof substantially normal to a surface of relatively small area, and an insert within said body and composed of a soap material having its grain substantially parallel to a-sur' face of relatively large area.

3. Asan article of manufacture, a soap cake comprising an elongated body having a display surface and composed of a soap material having its grain extending longitudinally of said body, and a distinctively colored insert within said body and composed of a soap material having its grain substantially parallel to said display surface.

4. As an article of manufacture, a soap cake comprising abody having a display surface and composed of a soap material having the grain thereof substantially parallel to said surface, and an insert .within said body and composed of a soap material having its grain substantially parallel to said display surface and parallel to the grain of the soap material forming said body.

5. As an article of manufacture, a soap cake comprising a body having a display surface and composed of a soap material having the grain thereof substantially parallel to said surface, and an insert within said body and composed of a soap material having its grain substantially parallel to said display surface and perpendicular to the grain of the soap material forming said body.

6. As an article of manufacture, a soap cake comprising'an elongated body composed of a soap material having the grain thereof extending lonwill be approximately parallel to the display surfaces thereof. I a

Although the present disclosure describes the soap cake and insert as formed from a milled gitudinally of said body,-and an insert within said body and composed of a soap material having its grain also extending longitudinally of said body.

7. As an article of manufacture, a soap cake comprising an elongated body composed of a soap material having the grain thereof extending longitudinallyof said body, and an insert within said body and composed of a soap material having its grain extending transversely of said body.

8. As an article of manufacture, a soap cake comprising an elongated substantially rectangular body having a display surface, an elongated side surface, and-a relatively small end surface and composed of a milled soap material having the grain thereof extending longitudinally of said body, substantially parallel to said display and side'surfaces and perpendicular to said end surface, and an insert within said body and composed of a distinctively colored soap material having its grain parallel to said display surface. 9. As an article of manufacture, a soap cake comprising an elongated substantially rectangu lar body having a display surface, an elongated side surface. and a relatively small end surface and composed of a milled soap material having the grain thereof extending longitudinally of said body, substantially parallel to said display and side surfaces and perpendicular to said end surface, and an insert within said body and composed of a distinctively colored soap material having its grain parallel to said display surface forming said body.

and parallel to the grain of the soap material" '10. As an article of manufacture, a soap cake comprising an elongated substantially rectangular body having a display surface, an elongated side surface, and a relatively small end surfce and composed of a milled soap material having the grain thereof extending longitudinally of said body, substantially parallel to said display and side surfaces and perpendicular to said end surface, and an insert within said body and composed of a distinctively colored soap material having its grain parallel to said display and perpendicular to the grain of the soap material forming said body.

, LESLIE A. BLOCK.

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